# Noise, it is now past a joke, the BARS and the Police need to sort it - Type: wall - Canonical path: /wall/13254-noise-it-is-now-past-a-joke-the-bars-and-the-police-need-to-sort-it - Canonical URL: https://aspanishlife.com/wall/13254-noise-it-is-now-past-a-joke-the-bars-and-the-police-need-to-sort-it If we are nor carefull, our home here in La Marina will end up just like some of the cities you see on Road Wars etc on UK TV. First off, La Marina is a residencial area, people live hear, it is not a holiday resort. When I drove home last night (sober) there was drunken fighting in Calle Del Parque, had a bottle thrown at my car, NO police. I will give you odds on where thay had come from !!! Andi posted SORRY ALAN ny mistake "why don't you move back to where you all come from" Please remember a lot of people who live by these bars are Spanish and have lived on this urb from day one. I do know quite a few Spanish who live around the Consum area, so how can you tell them to go back home, this is their home. As I have already said I am not against the bars, but they MUST obey the law, keep the noise down, and STOP serving foul mouth drunks, if you were to swear and shout in my local back home then you would be banned. If this problem is not resolved ASAP, god forbid the Spanish and possibly other nationalities get in touch with the dept in Valencia who control the bar licences, if that happens, then everyything with get clamped down on. Think about it, Gambling is illegal, so no more bingo, Please don’t tell me they only play for points, we all know that one of the new bars on the Consum complex pays our cash in the back room. I have just copied this from the “See posts from all areas” Everyone need to read this guy's post, it's heart breaking. SORRY, if this is what is happening around the CONSUM area, then yes, they need ban all music in that area. noise again well here i am at 4.19 a,m unable to sleep for all the shouting singing and swearing going on outside in the street.Same thing on Wednesday night when the police to their credit did turn out to see first hand what life is like here after midnight.It did stop the music and they did close the doors as per the law dictates but the they need to be more robust in moving revellers on after closing time as they do in Quesada at midnight.The Town Hall must have been deliberately antagonistic to grant 4.0 a.m closing licences to one of these bars bearing in mind the proximity to the existing houses.Do we have any bars in San Fulgencio with a licence this late.Of course not ,so all the revellers from off the Urb.come here to make problems for us.When the Consum area was first proposed only a few neighbours were canvassed to see if an objection would be raised which of course wasn,t.But later when the pilings were started for the second building a delegation went to the Town Hall to enquire what was going on and after messing us about for over an hour were told they didn,t know.These were the people who were running this Urb.and are now out of office but they have left us with a legacy they cannot be proud of since it was all done without any dialogue with the people who mattered.I have lived here for 23 years adhered to the rules and regulations of my adopted country for what amounts to 30% of my life so i,m not going away .Those of you who say that we could move are dreaming .The economy of this country will not pick up for 5 years by which time most of these bars will be gone .Noise pollution is recognised by the World Health Organisation as the biggest problem in modern living such that the EU has a special unit within the Court of Human Rights to deal with complaints.Recent cases in Spain alone has resulted in hefty fines and closures of offending premises as was seen in Elche recently.The problem is that serious that it is now a criminal offence to allow the noise by offending businesses to continue and the courts hold individual councillors responsible .I wonder whether businesses are issued with the regulations when applying for their aperturer.Clearly this situation cannot continue much longer before the matter is taken out of the local,s hands.There are more people resident here now and do not frequent the bars so the sooner the Town Hall stop thinking this is front line Benidorm the better.Oh,its 4.50 and the noise has stopped i guess i,ll go to bed now.Wonder if i,ll get any sleep to morrow night. Agost Posted a day ago by WilliBoy